Hajo Eicken is to become the new director of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, returning to Germany after nearly three decades in Alaska. A conversation about his experiences with sea ice,…
A UN report recently warned of a "global water bankruptcy". In this interview, UFZ hydrobiologist Dietrich Borchardt explains the state of the world’s water resources and outlines what challenges…
Michelle Browne is an electrochemist, material scientist, and head of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group Electrocatalysis: Synthesis to Devices at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und…
Germany has the opportunity to extend its strength as an engineering powerhouse into medicine and the life sciences. Vasilis Ntziachristos explains how this can be achieved using three key levers.
Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other post-infectious diseases pose new questions for medicine and society. With the long-term data from the NAKO Health Study, Germany now aims to systematically clarify why…
Katrin Böhning-Gaese is Scientific Director at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and, since January 1, 2026, has been serving as Vice President of the Helmholtz Association for the…
